Name
Henry Ewart Rawlings
About 1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/12/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
16153
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
I. C. 23
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans
Pre War
Address given as 15 George Street, St Albans.
Wartime Service
Killed in action.
Additional Information
Of four brothers two were killed: Henry (who has the St Albans connection) and Alfred and John (Kentish Town) and William (also St Albans) survived. A newspaper report in the Herts Advertiser records that John and William were with Henry when he died ion the battlefield. It also records that their mother died of a severe seizure after hearing of the death of her sons.
Some newspapers reported his name as Henry Ewart Rawlings.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
